October 31, 2015

81st Tribal Art Auction

A rich and diverse selection: Important and powerful sculptures and masks from Africa, Australia, Asia and Oceania. Sensitive and delicate barkpaintings from the western Arnhemland. Samurai armaments from the Edo Period. A fine old Netsuke collection. Ceramics from the Nazca culture as well as works from the Inuit and First Nations.

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Highlights

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Lot 14: Superb anthropomorphic (ancestor) mask, around 1800
Lot 42: Fine old netsuke: Flute playing boy riding on the back of a bull, 19th century
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Lot 44: Samurai armour, Edo period
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Lot 45: Samurai armour, Edo period
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Lot 76: Overmodelled ancestor skull, before 1920
Lot 90: Large standing figure
Lot 105: Large ceremonial food platter
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Lot 112: Figure of a deity
Lot 115: Barkpainting: "Barramundi"
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Lot 123: Parrying shield
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Lot 169: Mask "anbai" or "nyangbai"
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Lot 185: Mask "dyodyomini"
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Lot 186: Vessel's lid with sitting male figure on top "ogo banya" or "ogo koro"
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Lot 187: Standing figure
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Lot 188: Standing female figure with child
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Lot 189: Standing male figure with raised arms
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Lot 190: Sitting male figure
Lot 191: Standing figure
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Lot 211: Standing male figure "blolo bian"
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Lot 214: Horned mask "kpan"
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Lot 215: Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
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Lot 229: Mask
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Lot 241: Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
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Lot 245: Mask "bugle"
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Lot 249: Standing male figure
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Lot 305: Standing female figure
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Lot 310: Rare ram heads "osamasinmi"
Lot 311: Court attendant with ceremonial sword "eben"
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Lot 335: Superb title stool
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Lot 376: Throne, around 1900
Lot 390: Helmet mask
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Lot 392: Rare, old Commemorative Figure of a King "fon", late 19th century
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Lot 406: Female puppet
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Lot 409: Reliquary guardian figure "mbulu-ngulu" ("spirit of a deceased")
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Lot 410: Reliquiary figure "mboy"
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Lot 424: Power figure "nkisi", before 1929
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Lot 426: Bell mask "alunga"
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Lot 436: Standing male ancestor figure "singiti"
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Lot 451: Mask "lukungu"
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Lot 452: Standing hermaphrodite "iginga" of "bwami" society
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Lot 495: Standing male power figure "nkisi"
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Lot 499: Old helmet mask "hemba", around 1900
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Lot 529: Mask "mwana pwo"

81st Tribal Art Auction

Lot 207 : Doll
Côte d'Ivoire, Abron
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Swiss Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 208 : Standing male figure "blolo bian"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Not available anymore
Lot 209 : Standing female figure "blolo bla"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Sold EUR 2,400
Lot 210 : Standing male ancestor figure "blolo bian"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Frederick Harry Gordon Hanley, Bournemouth, England
Sold EUR 1,700
Lot 211 : Standing male figure "blolo bian"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Swiss Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 212 : Standing male figure "blolo bian"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Swiss Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 213 : Standing ancestor figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Harrie Heinemans, Eindhoven, The Netherlands · Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 28 May 2011, lot 158 · French Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 214 : Horned mask "kpan"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
American Private Collection · Sotheby’s London, 17th june 1991, Lot 109 · Roswitha von Bergmann, Düsseldorf, Germany · Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany · Philippe Ratton, Paris, France (2014)
Sold EUR 6,000
Lot 215 : Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Sold EUR 6,500
Lot 216 : Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Michael Rhodes, New York, USA · Sebastian Fernandez, New York, USA
Sold EUR 4,800
Lot 217 : Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Alain de Monbrison, Paris, France
Sold EUR 3,000
Lot 218 : Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Lauritz Sunde, Copenhagen, Denmark (acquired between 1969 and 1976)
Sold EUR 2,200
Lot 219 : Mask "mblo"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Sold EUR 1,500
Lot 220 : Face mask of the "goli" group "kplekple yaswa"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
J. Schotte, Ghent, Belgium · Philippe Ratton, Paris, France (2014)
Sold EUR 5,000
Lot 221 : Big helmet mask "goli glin"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Not available anymore
Lot 222 : Zoomorphic mask "bonu amwin"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Not available anymore
Lot 223 : Zoomorphic mask "bonu amwin"
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
German Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 224 : Handle of a fly whisk
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
German Private Collection, Berlin (1962)
Sold EUR 160
Lot 225 : Handle of a flywhisk
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Swiss Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 226 : Mallet for "dawle" iron gong
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Swiss Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 227 : Spoon
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Ingrid Zersen, Germany
Sold EUR 500
Lot 228 : Goldweight: Leopard
Côte d'Ivoire, Baule
Not available anymore
Lot 229 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Bété
German Collection, Munich
Sold EUR 7,000
Lot 230 : Male figure "lü mä"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Dieter Maeding, Cologne, Germany
Sold EUR 2,500
Lot 231 : Female figure "lü mä"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
French Collection · Alexandre Claes, Brussels, Belgium
Sold EUR 2,500
Lot 232 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Paul Kummert, Frankfurt, Germany
Sold EUR 1,800
Lot 233 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Antoine Ferrari de la Salle, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Not available anymore
Lot 234 : Chimpanzee mask "kagle"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Southern German Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 235 : Mask "deangle"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Sold EUR 250
Lot 236 : Janus-faced guardian head
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan
Not available anymore
Lot 237 : Maske
Côte d'Ivoire, Diomande
Erwin Graumann, Geneva, Switzerland
Sold EUR 3,000
Lot 239 : Mask
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Northern German Private Collection, collected in situ in the 1950’s during employment of the collector with Woermann, Hamburg (see also Lot 525 to 532)
Sold EUR 300
Lot 240 : Anthropomorphic mask with horns "zewe"
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Not available anymore
Lot 241 : Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Swiss Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 242 : Heddle pulley with anthropomorphic head
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Eduard Tschopp, Mutenz, Switzerland
Sold EUR 1,100
Lot 243 : Spoon
Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
Sold EUR 450
Lot 244 : Equestrian figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo/Jimini
Alain de Monbrison, Paris, France · Adrian Schlag, Brussels, Belgium · American Private Collection (2009) · Bonhams New York, 12 May 2012, lot 287
Not available anymore
Lot 245 : Mask "bugle"
Côte d'Ivoire, Dan/Kran
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland (1970) · Georges Frederick Keller, Paris, France (Inventory number “G.F.K. 101”) · Paolo Morigi, Magliaso, Switzerland · Sotheby’s Paris, Collection Paolo Morigi, 6 June 2005, lot 67 · Philippe Ratton, Paris, France (2014)
Sold EUR 6,000
Lot 246 : Standing male figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Kulango
Not available anymore
Lot 247 : Figural carved staff "tefalapica"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Oskar Oberle, Würzburg, Germany · German Private Collection
Sold EUR 900
Lot 248 : Standing male figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Sold EUR 1,100
Lot 249 : Standing male figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Christine Valluet, Paris, France · Christie’s, Paris, 11 June 2007, lot 64 · Belgian Private Collection
Not available anymore
Lot 250 : Standing female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Sold EUR 1,500
Lot 251 : Female bowl bearer
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Josef Müller/Mueller (1887-1977) Collection, Solothurn, Switzerland · Monique Barbier-Mueller by descent, Geneva, Switzerland · Christie’s, London, “The Late Josef Mueller Collection. Part II”, 20 March 1979 · Monika Wengraf/Arcade Gallery, London
Sold EUR 15,000
Lot 252 : Standing female figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Thompson, Santa Fé, USA
Not available anymore
Lot 253 : Divination figure
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Not available anymore
Lot 254 : Helmet mask "degele"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Kevin Conru, London, Great Britain
Sold EUR 2,000
Lot 255 : Fire spitter mask "wanjugo"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland · Swiss Private Collection
Sold EUR 3,300
Lot 256 : Ceremonial headdress "kworo"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany
Sold EUR 2,000
Lot 257 : Rare harp-lute "korikaariye"
Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo
Manfred Zirngibl, Passau, Germany (1950’s)
Sold EUR 960